Challenges and opportunities for just and equitable land use change in Europe

This is a practical handbook for navigating ethics, equity and justice issues in land use research and practice in Europe (EU + CH and GB). It is based on discussions in three seminars in T1.3 (M3, 9, 15), and ongoing reflexive work in the project consortium across T1.1, T1.2 and T1.3. The handbook includes generalisable guidance on ethics concerns and how to address them, as well as detailed, specific examples of issues and their management from across the 11 PLUS Change cases and multiplier cluster (see Part B, Table 2, page 8). Concrete ethics plans developed by PLUS Change researchers in T1.3 are included as annexes. Internally in the project, the handbook guides PLUS Change researchers and practice cases in completing their work across empirical WPs 2, 3, 4 and 5 and will be used in WP5 seminars (M33, 36, 39) when piloting and trialing land use interventions. Externally, the handbook guides researchers and land use managers and practitioners in identify and addressing the ethics, equity and justice issues in their own land use interventions.